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@Leroof posted:

I was lucky to find this clean old tin cookie container!
I like the little bell attached announcing fresh bakery goods!

I’ve got one also. Your colors are a bit nicer I think.

Steve

@Leroof that a really nice cookie tin!  I have a whole bunch of Harry London cookie tins we use on both the regular layout and under the tree

Today,  we have a Beautiful Mth PRR 260e and train visiting the FCC ( Filing Cabinet Central)

@Leroof posted:

I was lucky to find this clean old tin cookie container!
I like the little bell attached announcing fresh bakery goods!

What a great item.  A layout tabletop made to recreate that beautiful wooden floor would have "the" European panache as in the Marklin video.

Scott Smith

Fendermain! I thought the same thing! I will eventually set up a Christmas layout with this little prize of a cookie jar and assorted early tin on wooden floors via an early euro panache, indeed! Thanks. Come to this realization,  As I missed Christmas train layout opportunity this year, I will set it up on my birthday next week and send some photos.             I may have a day or two off then.

Steve,  you have one too! Is it on your layout?  I feel like I have been quite fortunate with this beauty.

JHZ, great Harry London tins collection you have. I Like your MTH 260 E! Chunky beast!

Safe path for 2021 folks.

Another quiet week from Casa Fatmanos .... but I did score a Karl Bub NS 1100 series (Dutch Railways) clockwork loco from my Dutchy mate ! ... a little bit ruff n ready , but a cutie nonetheless

Locally I picked up a heap of ephemera from the Victorian Model Railway Society ... a homemade compendium of their 1938-9 club magazine, The Coupling ... a few hundred pages of history

Bing Gauge 1 hospital car with plenty of customers.

Hi Tinplate fans, today I am going to be a bit redundant.  I recently acquired a loco that I first saw in Fatman's post of some months ago and I just fell in love with the colorful livery.  It is a Brimtoy "Britannia" clockwork loco, this one with the "Lion and Wheel" tender, dating it from (about) 1956.  I know that Arnie also showed this same loco in the other (green) livery but his is the first I have seen that way.  Incredibly it just appeared on e-bay one afternoon and the chase was on!!  This one was sourced in the US so it may comes from another US collector.  Anyway there was  not too much competition so I was able to close the deal.

Anyway, here is my "Britannia"

Happy Tinplate Sunday everyone!!

Don

Whoo Hoo! Welcome @Don McErlean to the "Cute but not terribly functional club! " LOL!

A fine example too ! As you pointed out the Red Britannia is a lot more common than the Green Variant , but they are out there .

I might use this opportunity for a bit of Brimtoy necromancy on the thread and post some of the wonderful Brimtoy I obtained from the Michael Foster auction of examples used in his marvellous books on British Trains

A "Cock of the North" rake in both passenger and freight !

And a 35a set in two variants ... One thing I loved about Brimtoy is they made differing versions to suit different pockets ... the front rake in this photo was a simple push train with no mechanism at all and the upper rake is a floor train version powered by clockwork for kiddies who didnt have track or as a cost effective toy if parents wanted to not have to pay for track

All in excellent condition and the actual models appearing in his books .. honoured to have them

OK .. On Fire now !!!

Just had a "win" on a leetle bit of "Rocking Horse Poo"  Everyone knows Erector and Meccano , but in the late teens and 20's Frank Hornby in the UK  had a bit of competition from W. Butcher and Sons of Blackheath, London who created the Primus Engineering Construction sets , and also made a Gauge 1 clockwork locomotive set !

Now before anyone gets excited ( lol ) .. I DIDN'T get the above ! ... these are serious Rocking Horse Poo rare like I said ... but I did manage to score the clockwork MOTOR for one !

I take my wins where I can get them , and although I suspect I will never ever see a loco kit at a price anywhere near that I could afford .. hey , at least I have a motor for it LOL!!!

( again its the HISTORY of stuff like this that gets my juices flowing   )

http://www.binnsroad.co.uk/railways/primus/index.html

Not so cheap even when new ... about 4-5 days of a working mans wage in 1920's UK  ... if you got this under the Christmas tree you did well!

Farman: thanks for the data on Brimtoy. Fosters book is my source as well it is a fabulous series. The Primus data as well. Gilbert offered a locomotive as part of its “Erector” series of sets but like you the only one I have seen available was on E-bay for a kings ransom!!

Good hunting

Don

Yesterday I finished a long term project. I started it 16 years ago and then forgot. It is a large signal bridge by Karl Bub, No. 734 / 5E, built from around 1910 - 1924. The model had diverged in several places and was also bent. So it was completely dismantled and rebuilt.

It is painted in the original color scheme by Karl Bub. This is actually wrong, the lower arms should be yellow and black for an English signal.

But it could also be seen in the catalog, here a picture from the 1910 catalog by Ullmann & Engelmann.

Arne

Arne,

   That came out great! You should be very happy with it.

Tom

@Arne posted:

Yesterday I finished a long term project. I started it 16 years ago and then forgot. It is a large signal bridge by Karl Bub, No. 734 / 5E, built from around 1910 - 1924. The model had diverged in several places and was also bent. So it was completely dismantled and rebuilt.

It is painted in the original color scheme by Karl Bub. This is actually wrong, the lower arms should be yellow and black for an English signal.

But it could also be seen in the catalog, here a picture from the 1910 catalog by Ullmann & Engelmann.

Arne

Fabulous Arne

@Arne posted:

Yesterday I finished a long term project. I started it 16 years ago and then forgot. It is a large signal bridge by Karl Bub, No. 734 / 5E, built from around 1910 - 1924. The model had diverged in several places and was also bent. So it was completely dismantled and rebuilt.

Beautiful work!!

McCoy Black Diamond RR set. The red pipe car was not part of the set.

Steve

Spectacular, Arne.

@Fatman posted:

OK .. On Fire now !!!

Just had a "win" on a leetle bit of "Rocking Horse Poo"  Everyone knows Erector and Meccano , but in the late teens and 20's Frank Hornby in the UK  had a bit of competition from W. Butcher and Sons of Blackheath, London who created the Primus Engineering Construction sets , and also made a Gauge 1 clockwork locomotive set !

Now before anyone gets excited ( lol ) .. I DIDN'T get the above ! ... these are serious Rocking Horse Poo rare like I said ... but I did manage to score the clockwork MOTOR for one !

I take my wins where I can get them , and although I suspect I will never ever see a loco kit at a price anywhere near that I could afford .. hey , at least I have a motor for it LOL!!!

( again its the HISTORY of stuff like this that gets my juices flowing   )

http://www.binnsroad.co.uk/railways/primus/index.html

Not so cheap even when new ... about 4-5 days of a working mans wage in 1920's UK  ... if you got this under the Christmas tree you did well!

You had me excited there. Well, congrats on your find.

Fantastic restoration @Arne 

Some superb tinsmithing talent there !

@Will  well I DID tell you not to get too excited LOL! ... Rest assured if I ever find the loco you will hear the whoop! from here all the way in the USA !

Tail End Tuesday

Steve